Digimon - The Movie (1999)
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25% of critics liked it
(40 reviews) -
60% of users liked it
(20,169 ratings)
While some children spend their summer vacation playing ball or going to the beach, seven kids use their free time to help save the world in this feature-length animated adventure adapted from the popular television series. While attending summer camp, a group of kids playing with computers are… More While some children spend their summer vacation playing ball or going to the beach, seven kids use their free time to help save the world in this feature-length animated adventure adapted from the popular television series. While attending summer camp, a group of kids playing with computers are transported into a digital universe, where they make friends with the Digital Monsters, or Digimon, creatures of the electronic world who can transform themselves into more advanced beings at will. However, while the children have been befriended by good Digimon, there are also evil Digimon, and a ruthless Internet Digimon is ravenously swallowing up communications data from around the world. The Internet Digimon has the potential to take over worldwide communications -- including military weapons-launch technology -- if the good Digimon and their human friends cannot stop its schemes. Digimon: The Movie was adapted from two shorter Japanese films using the Digimon characters, and was prepared for U.S. release by the same team who Americanized the original Japanese anime series Dejimon Adobencha. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mamoru Hosada, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
- Written By
- Bob Bucholz, Jeff Nimoy
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Animation, Anime & Manga, Art House & International, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Oct 6, 2000 Wide
- On DVD
- Feb 6, 2001
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
Critic Reviews
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Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
Overall, it's a pleasantly bearable experience.
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Sean Means, Film.com
Parents, if you don't want to compete with popular culture to raise your child ... this is where you draw the line in the sand.
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Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly
With its migraine-inducing laser showdowns and puerile gags ... Digimon almost makes you nostalgic for the relative sophistication of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Susan Stark, Detroit News
As noisy, chaotic, cheesy and crassly commercial a product as has ever been put on the big screen.
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Loren King, Boston Globe
What is particularly unappealing and troublesome about the feature is that it is a video game barely disguised as a movie.
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